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Overview

Amazon operates a vast online marketplace where customers can purchase a wide variety of products, including electronics, books, apparel, household goods, and more. The company has a robust logistics and delivery network, allowing efficient shipping and on-time delivery to customers.

Total investments
202
Lead investments
44
Investments · 12mo
19
Active investors
15

Sector focus

  • Crowdsourcing
  • Delivery
  • E-Commerce
  • Retail
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Investment portfolio

  • Twelve Labs

    Participated · Series B · Jul 2026

    TwelveLabs develops foundational video models and an end-to-end video cognition platform that converts raw video into structured, searchable intelligence. Its Marengo 3.0 model provides advanced video embeddings and its Pegasus 1.5 model extracts structured scene boundaries, entities, and temporal segments; both models are distributed via TwelveLabs’ API and Amazon Bedrock. The company has begun moving beyond models into a full-stack agentic architecture that maintains persistent, compoundable memory of indexed video and ships application-layer products such as Rodeo. TwelveLabs counts customers and traction in media and entertainment and is expanding into government and other verticals including advertising, security, sports, and automotive. It operates R&D in San Francisco and Seoul and plans geographic expansion with new offices in New York and London. The company also maintains a strategic partnership with AWS, including optimization on Trainium chips and prioritized model launches on AWS.

  • Odyssey

    Participated · Series B · Jun 2026

    Founded in 2023 by self-driving veterans Oliver Cameron (CEO) and Jeff Hawke (CTO), Odyssey develops world models that gather and simulate physical-world data for applications across video, robotics and gaming. The company has produced a handful of models and is noted for generating rich, interactive video from text prompts. Its data-collection approach involved sending people with cameras to capture environments, mirroring techniques used by mapping products. After its latest financing Amazon became a strategic cloud partner and Odyssey plans to optimize its models for AWS Trainium chips. Financially, Odyssey raised $310 million in a Series B at a $1.45 billion valuation and has raised $337 million in total to date.

  • NEURA Robotics

    Participated · Series C · Jun 2026

    Founded in 2019 by David Reger in Metzingen, Germany, NEURA Robotics builds ‘cognitive’ robots that can see, hear, sense their surroundings and learn from experience. The company integrates sensors, AI software and robotic hardware into single devices, likening its machines to a “smartphone with arms and legs.” In addition to hardware, it offers the Neuraverse software platform, which enables the safe deployment and interaction of intelligent robots with humans. NEURA serves both industrial and consumer markets and has disclosed nearly $1 billion worth of purchase orders from customers such as Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Omron. Management is focused on accelerating humanoid robot development and scaling production capacity. Financially, the firm previously secured €120 million in January 2025 and is now pursuing a much larger raise to fund expansion. If successful, the new round could push the company’s valuation to approximately €4 billion.

  • Invisible-Light Labs

    Led · Seed · Jun 2026

    Invisible-Light Labs commercialises nanoelectromechanical Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (NEMS‑FTIR) to chemically analyse sub-micron particles, aerosols, nanoplastics and samples available in very limited quantities. Its flagship product, EMILIE (also sold jointly with Bruker Optics as BRKR-EMILIE), is a commercially available analyzer that combines nanomechanical sensing with FTIR spectroscopy. The company targets applications across environmental monitoring, pharmaceutical analysis, and nanotechnology. Founded in 2019 as a TU Wien spin-out, Invisible-Light Labs signed a strategic partnership with Bruker Optics in 2025 to expand global availability of its system. The company recently raised €1.5 million in a pre-seed round to accelerate international commercialisation and to fund development of additional products for its target markets.

  • Anthropic

    Participated · Series H · May 2026

    Anthropic is a premier artificial intelligence safety and research company renowned for developing Claude, a family of highly capable, steerable, and safe large language models. Founded by former OpenAI researchers, Anthropic pioneers techniques like "Constitutional AI" to build systems that are helpful, honest, and harmless. Beyond its core research, the company has rapidly scaled into a dominant market force, experiencing exponential revenue growth driven by widespread enterprise adoption. Anthropic has attracted unprecedented investor attention, recently raising approximately $30 billion at a $380 billion valuation, with ongoing negotiations potentially boosting its valuation to roughly $800 billion. As a leading competitor in the generative AI space, the company is reportedly exploring an IPO later this year.

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